Rogers Cole v. Cole Et Ux.

The plaintiffs, who are real estate brokers at Marshfield, bring this suit to recover a commission which they claim is due them on the sale of the defendants’ farm situated in that town. Negotiations between the parties here relative to a sale of the farm on the basis of a five per cent, commission began early in 1922. The price of the property as then fixed by the defendants was $6,000. Later in the negotiations, the defendants reduced this price to $5,500; and finally they agreed to take $5,000 for the farm. Nothing came of the plaintiffs’ effort to make a sale, until on December 5, 1923,…